Tough homicide
detective Bobby Gold (Joe Mantegna) is torn between his loyalty to the
police force and his rediscovered Jewish identity in writer-director David
Mamet's tense and gritty police thriller. Gold is caught between two dangerous
worlds when he's pulled off a drug case and assigned to the murder of
an elderly Jewish woman who runs a pawn shop in the ghetto. Was her death
a simple homicide, or was it related to an antisemitic plot? Suddenly,
what appeared to be a routine investigation becomes Gold's line to the
conspiracy of death and destruction that has plagued the Jewish people
for centuries.

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"The
movie crackles with energy and life, and with throwaway slang dialogue
by Mamet, who takes realistic speech patterns and simplifies them into
a kind of hammer-and-nail poetry." -Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times